Varina
FictionMan-woman relationshipsHistoryFiction, biographicalFiction, historical, generalUnited states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fictionMan-woman relationships, fiction
Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history--culpable regardless of her intentions.
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